Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
My interest in computers and art historical research has led me into a new realm, that of digitized imaging and interactive graphics. I am presently working with Kirk D. Alexander, Senior Technician and Manager of Graphics Research Services, Princeton University at Princeton University to create a program for use in teaching and research in art history, and by extension, in any field of study that uses visual information. Using a powerful new machine, the Silicon Graphics VGX IRIS workstation, we are scanning full color images into computers where they can be seen in context on architectural surfaces in three dimensional space through which the spectator's viewing location can move freely in real time. Our prototype will be a data set based on a single work of monumental mural painting, Piero della Francesca's Legend of the True Cross at Arezzo, with a photographic database that can be searched in relation to verbal as well as to other visual information.